By Azure Mitchell on Sep 11, 2026

NMSU to host public reading by award-winning writer Sept. 11

Award-winning writer Jessica Alexander will give a free public reading at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 11 in NMSU’s CMI Theater, followed by a discussion.

Jessica Alexander, award-winning writer and New Mexico State University visiting fiction professor, will read from her gothic novel, “Agnes, We’re Not Murderers!” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 11, at NMSU’s CMI Theater in Milton Hall, Room 171. The reading is part of NMSU’s Nelson-Boswell Reading Series hosted by La Sociedad para Las Artes. (Courtesy photo / New Mexico State University)

Visiting fiction professor Jessica Alexander will read from her gothic novel, ‘Agnes, We’re Not Murderers!’ as part of the Nelson-Boswell Reading Series

Azure Mitchell, New Mexico State University

LAS CRUCES - Described as clever, uncompromising, and utterly meta, award-winning writer and New Mexico State University visiting fiction professor Jessica Alexander will bring her dark imagination to the Nelson-Boswell Reading Series at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 11, in the CMI Theater (Room 171) located inside Milton Hall on NMSU Main Campus.

Based in Tennessee, Alexander hosts virtual writing workshops for memoirists, poets and fiction writers. Drawing from her experience writing four books and 14 publications, Alexander works to ignite the ideas of those in her class and her readers.

The public reading event, organized by La Sociedad para Las Artes, will feature Alexander reading selections from her gothic novel, “Agnes, We're Not Murderers!” This experimental horror follows themes of vampires and queer romance and was described as “a reading experience unlike any other” by Gwendolyn Kiste, a four-time Bram Stoker award-winning author.

The Nelson-Boswell Reading Series hosts visiting authors and graduating MFA cohorts to read pieces of their literature before a live audience. Visitors are welcome, free of charge, to listen to the storytelling of many authors throughout the year and stay for a discussion following the reading.

Azure Mitchell writes for New Mexico State University Marketing and Communications and can be reached by email at azurekm@nmsu.edu.

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